Gregg Wonderly wrote:
As I've said here before and elsewhere, I really feel that tabs only is
the most beneficial indentation to use. The reason is that it allows
people who use odd tab intervals to still see things and use their tab
key while editing without having to change their IDE settings while
editing.
Sun has an old formatting document that discusses using spaces only, and
netbeans does this by default. The biggest issue for me, of course, is
that I use 4 character tab expansion and tabs only in all of my
development.
In an open source world, all tabs is really the only thing that provides
the most flexibility it seems to me.
My current approach in making changes to River is to try to be
consistent with the code around the change.
I am very strongly opposed to mixing tabs and space, because it loses
indentation consistency unless viewed with the same tab size as was used
to create it.
I prefer all spaces because it avoids the nasty over-indentation you get
if all tabs is viewed in with 8 spaces per tab. For example, tabbed code
has real problems when quoted in mail or newsgroup messages. However,
I'm generally willing to be flexible about this sort of thing.
Patricia
